9 January 2009: RN’s 96th Birthday

  I was born in a house my father built.  My birth on the night of January 9, 1913, coincided with a record-breaking cold snap in our town of Yorba Linda, California.  Yorba Linda was a farming community of 200 people about thirty miles from Los Angeles, surrounded by...

1600 Penn Ave’s Fantastic Five

Yesterday, four men lunched at the White House at the invitation of President Bush. But not just any four. They were President-elect Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. This was the very first time all present and former...

Sir David Reminisces, And A Correction

“Someone has to be pretty fascinating, pretty enigmatic, pretty Nixonian to keep one fascinated for 28 3/4 hours.” So says Sir David Frost about President Nixon in this CNN article (with accompanying video clip). Frost also discusses his visit to San...

Panetta’s New Assignment: Bring It Together

The initial wire-service reports this afternoon of  President-elect Obama’s appointment of Leon Panetta to become director of the CIA made mention of his work in the Clinton Administration’s first term as director of the Office of Management and Budget and...